William Colby RUCKER

author, physician, sanitarian, surgeon

b. September 28, 1875
Kenney, De Witt, Illinois, USA


m. July 19, 1902
Annetje Magdalena GUEQUIERRE
b. April 15, 1877, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d. May 5, 1918, California
interment: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

m. November 11, 1912
Elizabeth Harwood NEFF, b. 1878


d. May 22, 1930
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
interment: Site 8552, Section 6,
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

children:

Colby Guequierre
b. Juni 24, 1903, Boston, Massachusetts
d. Nov 13, 1983, Annapolis, Maryland

Elizabeth L., b. 1908

parents:

Hamlin Presley RUCKER
b. Feb 19, 1848

Maria Lydia COLBY
b. Sept 12, 1847

siblings:

Geneva E.

education:

Rush Medical College, Chicago, M.D., 1897
University of California, M.S., 1912
Dr.P.H., 1915

occupation:

surgeon
-1910 Health Commissioner, Milwaukee
~1913-1920 Assistant Surgeon General

military:

US Marine Hospital Service (1907)
WW I: secretary, Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation,
General Medical Board, Council of National Defense (1914-18)
Colonel (1918)
Assistant Surgeon General,
United States Public Health Service (1919/1920)
Surgeon (1920-)
Major (?)

residence:

Kenney, Illinois (1880)
Chicago, Illinois (1897)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1900)
San Francisco, California (1908)
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts (1908)
Washington, D.C. (1915/1919/1920)
New Orleans, Louisiana (1930)